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Core Faculty
NameTitleEmail
Elizabeth AllenPh.D. University of Michigan
Associate Professor of English (medieval literature; theories of reception; exemplary and didactic literature; literature and ethics; literature and affect; history of English language; Old English)
eallen@uci.edu
Marc David BaerPh.D. University of ChicagoAssistant Professor of History (Islamic and Middle Eastern History; Ottoman Empire and Turkey; religious conversion, crypto-religion)mdbaer@uci.edu
Carol M. BurkePh.D. Maryland University
Associate Professor of English (folk belief, folklore; creative non-fiction)
cburke@uci.edu
James T. ChiampiPh.D. Yale University
Professor of Italian (Italian Renaissance)
jtchiamp@uci.edu
Susan B. CoutinPh.D. Stanford University
Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society (immigration and border issues; law; Central America; political and religious activism; human rights; sanctuary movement)
scoutin@uci.edu
Lara DeebPh.D. Emory University
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies (Islam, gender, and notions of modernity; religious social movements; gender and the social sphere)
ldeeb@uci.edu
James B. GivenPh.D. Stanford University
Professor of History (medieval Europe; social and political history)
jbgiven@uci.edu
Qitao GuoPh.D. University of California, Berkeley.
Associate Professor of History (social, cultural, and religious history of
China in the Ming and Qing dynasties)
guoq@uci.edu
Michelle HamiltonPh.D. University of California, Berkeley, Associate Professor of Spanish (medieval Spanish literature)michellh@uci.edu
Lamar M. HillPh.D. University of London
Professor Emeritus of History (Tudor-Stuart England; early modern Europe)
lmhill@uci.edu
Bonnie KentPh.D. Columbia University
Professor of Philosophy (ethics; medieval philosophy and theology; philosophy of religion)
bkent@uci.edu
Susan B. KleinPh.D. Cornell University
Director of Religious Studies and Associate Professor of Japanese (premodern and modern theater and dance; medieval commentaries; Japanese religions; new historicism and feminist critical theory)
sbklein@uci.edu
Karen LeonardPh.D. University of Wisconsin
Co-Director of the Center for Asian Studies and Professor of Anthropology (social history of India; caste ethnicity and gender; Asian-Americans in the United States)
kbleonar@uci.edu
Mark LeVinePh.D. New York University
Associate Professor of History (modern Middle East and Islam; globalization; popular culture)
mlevine@uci.edu
Jayne LewisPh.D. Princeton University, Professor of English (Restoration/eighteenth- century British Literature; natural philosophy and the supernatural; early modern meteorology; historical fiction)jelewis@uci.edu
Julia Reinhard LuptonPh.D. Yale University, Director of Humanities Out There (HOT) and Professor of English (Shakespeare; Renaissance literature; religious studies; Jewish studies; humanities and the public sphere)jrlupton@uci.edu
Steven MaillouxPh.D., University of Southern California
UCI Chancellor's Professor of Rhetoric (American literature; contemporary theory; cultural studies and criticism; history and theories of rhetoric)
sjmaillo@uci.edu
John MilesPh.D. Harvard University
Distinguished Professor of English & Religious Studies (Christianity and Islam)
jack.miles@uci.edu
Keith L. NelsonPh.D. University of California
Berkeley, Professor Emeritus of History (American foreign relations; Soviet-American relations; war and society)
klnelson@uci.edu
Alka PatelPh.D. Harvard
Assistant Professor of Art History (Islamic art and architectural history of South Asia, 12th-18th centuries; Islam in Spain and North Africa, and its diaspora in the new world)
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Victoria SilverPh.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Associate Professor of English (Renaissance studies; feminist and gender studies; cultural studies and criticism; history of literary theory; histories and theories of rhetoric)
vasilver@uci.edu
Elisa TamarkinPh.D. Stanford University
Associate Professor, English (Pre-1900 American literature and culture)
tamarkin@uci.edu

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Affiliated Faculty
NameTitleEmail
Stanley BaileyPh.D. U.C.L.A., Assistant Professor of Sociology
(Sociology of Religion; Race and Ethnicity, Comparative and International
Perspectives; Mass Killings; Latin America; Border Studies)
bailey@uci.edu
Linda Freeman BauerPh.D. Institute of Fine Arts
New York University, Professor of Art History (Renaissance and Baroque art)
lfbauer@uci.edu
Victoria BernalPh.D. Northwestern University
Associate Professor of Anthropology (Feminist theory and gender; civil society, globalization, cyberspace, transnationalism; the Islamic revival; peasants, labor migration; Africa, Muslim societies)
vbernal@uci.edu
Dickson D. BrucePh.D. University of PennsylvaniaProfessor of History (American culture; African American history of the South)ddbruce@uci.edu
Yong ChenPh.D. Cornell University
Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies (Asian-American history; late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American social and cultural history; immigration history)
y3chen@uci.edu
Chungmoo ChoiPh.D. Indiana University
Associate Professor of Korean Culture (Modern Korea; post-colonial and colonial discourse; Marxism and Christianity; popular cultures and anthropology)
cchoi@uci.edu
Edward FowlerPh.D. University of California, Berkeley
Department Chair of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Professor of Japanese (Modern literature; cultural studies; film)
ebfowler@uci.edu
Michael FullerPh.D. Yale University
Associate Professor of Chinese (Classical Chinese poetry and poetics; the cultural and intellectual contexts for poetry; aesthetic theory; linguistic issues in classical Chinese)
mafuller@uci.edu
Alexander GelleyPh.D. Yale University
Professor of Comparative Literature
(eighteenth-century English and comparative literature; nineteenth-century English and comparative literature and philosophy; German-Jewish literature and culture)
agelley@uci.edu
Linda GeorgiannaPh.D. Columbia University, Professor Emerita of English (medieval literature and culture; nineteenth-century medievalism)lmgeorgi@uci.edu
Anna GonosovaPh.D. Harvard University
Associate Professor of Art History (Byzantine and Medieval art and architecture)
agonosov@uci.edu
Judy C. HoPh.D. Yale University, Associate Professor of Art History (Chinese art and archaeology; Buddhist art and popular religions)jchooran@uci.edu
S. Nicholas JolleyPh.D Cambridge University, Department Chair and Professor of Philosophy (seventeenth and eighteenth-century philosophy; political philosophy)sjolley@uci.edu
Cecilia LynchPh.D Columbia University
Director of Global Peace and Conflict Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science (international relations theory; international organization and law; international ethics and political philosophy; social movements
clynch@uci.edu
Sanjoy MazumdarPh.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor of Social Ecology and of Asian American Studies (environmental design research: cultural aspects, environmental psychology; architecture, planning, organizational studies)
mazumdar@uci.edu
Michael T. McBridePh.D. Yale University
Assistant Professor of Economics (game theory; economics of religion; political economy of development; social networks; experimental economics)
mcbride@uci.edu
Margaret M. MilesPh.D. Princeton University
Associate Professor of Art History (Greek and Roman art; architecture and archaeology)
mmmiles@uci.edu
J. Michelle MolinaPh.D. University of Chicago
Assistant Professor of History (Colonial Latin America; global religious networks; Jesuits; comparative colonialism)
molina@uci.edu
Maria PanteliaPh.D. Ohio State University, Department Chair and Professor of Classics and Director, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae® (Greek epic poetry, Hellenistic poetry, computer applications to classics)mcpantel@uci.edu
Kenneth L. PomeranzPh.D. Yale University
UCI Chancellor’s Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Literatures (Modern China; origins of world economy; global context of environmental change; peasant protest and collective violence; popular religions)
klpomera@uci.edu
Jen'nan ReadPh.D. University of Texas at Austin, Associate professor of Sociology (gender, ethnicity, religion and health; Arab Americans, U.S. Muslims)jennan@uci.edu
Gary RichardsonPh.D. University of California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor of Economics (medieval economy and religion; economics and immigration; banking and the great depression)
garyr@uci.edu
Michael RyanPh.D. University of Iowa
Professor of English and Creative Writing (American literature; creative writing; poetry, poetics; autobiography)
mryan@uci.edu
Thomas P. SainePh.D Yale University, Professor Emeritus of German (eighteenth-century German literature; Goethe; Germany and the French Revolution; eighteenth-century popular philosophy and theologytpsaine@uci.edu
Martin SchwabPh.D., University of Bielefeld
Director of Minor in Humanities and Law and Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature (nineteenth and twentieth-century continental philosophy; literature and other arts, literature and philosophy)
mschwab@uci.edu
John H. SmithPh.D. Princeton University, Department Chair and Professor of German (eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature and intellectual history; literary theory)jhsmith@uci.edu
Daniel StokolsPh.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Professor of Planning, Policy and Design; Psychology and Social Behavior; and Public Health (theory development in environmental psychology and social ecology; environmental design research)
dstokols@uci.edu
Ulrike StrasserPh.D. University of Minnesota, Associate Professor of History (Early Modern Europe and Germany; comparative women’s history; social and cultural history)strasser@uci.edu
Timothy TackettPh.D. Stanford University, Professor of History (The Old Regime and the French Revolution; social, religious and cultural history; violence and terror)ttackett@uci.edu
Roxanne VarziPh.D. Columbia University
Assistant Professor of Anthropology (post-Revolution Iran, religion, media, youth culture, war)
rvarzi@uci.edu
Roger WalshM.B.B.S., Ph.D. University of Queensland (Australia)
Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Asian psychologies, philosophies, and religions; ecology; meditation; exceptional psychological well-being; post-conventional development; transpersonal
rwalsh@uci.edu

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